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Last year, ASCO sought to harness the collective wisdom of Annual Meeting attendees to set a course for the future of patient-centered care and research. This year’s meeting builds on those efforts in order to unite the entire oncology community in the battle against cancer.

On January 26, 2017, cancer survivors, caregivers, patient advocates, family physicians, oncology providers, and others gathered in San Diego, CA, to make connections, discuss survivorship issues, and get expert answers on their survivorship-related questions.

Throughout the year, ASCO offers thematic meetings focused on different cancers and care topics for members of the oncology community. Six thematic symposia will take place between January and March 2017, including new meetings on immuno-oncology and the business of cancer care.

In December 2016, Jonathan S. Berek, MD, MMS, FASCO, concluded his second term as ASCO Connection editor in chief, a position he had held since 2006. Dr. Berek is the Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor and director of the Stanford Women’s Cancer Center at the Stanford Cancer Institute, where he specializes in gynecologic oncology, and chair of...

The new law, called the Medicare Quality Payment Program, not only promises to deliver a more consistent and reliable system of payment compared to the previous SGR, but also heralds a fundamental shift in CMS’s conception of reimbursement incentives.

More than 650 attendees gathered in San Francisco on September 9 and 10 for the 2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium, focusing on the theme of “Patient-Centered Care Across the Cancer Continuum.”

ASCO opened participant enrollment for the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study in March 2016, marking a major milestone in the conduct of the Society’s first-ever clinical trial.

There has been no better time than the present for women in the field of oncology, yet even with all of the hard-fought advances women in medicine have made over the last 40 years, challenges stemming from internalized biases at the personal and institutional level persist.